Bethia (Bishop) Steele (abt. 1631 - 1676)

Born about 1631 in England

Wife of James Steele — married 18 Oct 1651 in Gilford, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died Jan 1676 at about age 45 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut

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Biography

Bethia (Bishop) Steele migrated from England to Colonial America.

Bethia Bishop was born about 1631 in England. She married James Steele on 18 Oct 1651 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut.^[1]

Family files sometimes report a Betsey Bishop born to the family of immigrant John Bishop. While there may be other accounts, in a 1906 account of John Bishop's family, "Betsey" was a nickname attributed to daughter Bethia Bishop. She was " "Bethia (or Betsey) Bishop" who reportedly married James Steel.,^[2]

Bethya, dau of John Sr. & Anna, mar James Steele, 18 Oct 1651 - Guilford VR^[3]

The will of John Bishop Sr's wife Anne (Stevens) Bishop, written 1673 and probated at Guilford1676, names her son-in-law James Steele as executor, but does not mention the name of her daughter who was his wife.^[1]

Death: Perhaps Jan 1676^[1] but definitely before James remarriage in 1685..^[4]

Note separately,

• No such child "Betsey Bishop" is reported by Nathan Grier Parke II, ^[4] Parke and Jacobus reported about four known children of John Bishop. These were Ann, John, Stephen and Bethia. The child Bethia was reportedly born "say 1630".

• An earlier account by William Whitney Cone and George Allen Root, Record of the descendants of John Bishop, one of the founders of Guilford, Connecticut in 1639 (1951) mentioned more children^[1]

Disputed Birth Date: 1616, England^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Whitney Cone and George Allen Root, Record of the descendants of John Bishop, one of the founders of Guilford, Connecticut in 1639 (1951), xi as "The children of [John Bishop and Ann]; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
2. ↑ Charles Edward Benton, Caleb Benton and Sarah Bishop, their ancestors and their descendants (1906), 48; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
3. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Town name. (Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.)Accessed at Ancestry ($)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} ''The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (1960), 98-100.
5. ↑ Source: #S-1880577991 Page: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=jakemyers6996&id=I12414 Quality or Certainty of Data: 0 Note:

Nathan Grier Parke II, The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (1960), 98-100; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed2014).

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/a/Gregory-C-Boardman/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0906.html

Source: The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early CT, by Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 2000. This includes the Barbour Collection.